Gansu, China, May 19 (Northwest Corner, China Gansu Net Reporter Song Fangke, Sun Hengli) On May 19, the 2024 "Village BA" Ball King Championship Gansu Subei Division will kick off the opening match, and the arena under the blue sky and white clouds will show the grassland style of the horseback nation. As a Mongolian ethnic group living under the snow-capped mountains, the Mongolian people in northern Subei are also known as the snow-capped Mongolian people, where the ethnic customs are rich and the intangible cultural heritage culture is wonderful. Following the footsteps of "Village BA" into Subei, the most dazzling national style is also worth looking forward to.
The Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Subei County Cultural Center is a window for tourists to understand the Mongolian folk culture in Subei.
The colorful ethnic customs have given birth to a variety of intangible cultural heritage items, and each intangible cultural heritage project shows the diversity of this land, which is a portrayal of the life of the Mongolian people in northern Subei, and is the imprint of the water and soil to nurture the people.
From folk literature to traditional music, from traditional skills to traditional Mongolian medicine, Subei County has 99 intangible cultural heritages, including 2 national intangible cultural heritage items and 7 provincial intangible cultural heritage items. These projects coexist with the grassland, are nourished by the snow-capped mountains, and become the common memory of the nation in the inheritance of generations of grassland children.
Subei Mongolian costumes are national intangible cultural heritage, Naren Qige, as a national intangible cultural inheritor of Subei Mongolian costumes, has been learning Mongolian embroidery with his grandmother since he was eight years old, and has now studied and made Subei Mongolian costumes for 57 years.
Naren Qiqige told reporters that the Mongolian costumes in northern Subei, also known as the Mongolian costumes of the Snow Mountains, have their own characteristics and aesthetics, and the clothes are people's daily wear, which can best reflect the national customs and culture. The Mongolian costumes of their tailors are mainly hand-sewn, incorporating the culture of the snow-capped mountain Mongols into the details of the clothes. For example, women's clothing decorated with rainbows is to make life more colorful, and there are some sheep's intestine-like embroidery that also expresses the meaning of grassland people's expectation of animal husbandry.
In the Mongolian costumes of northern Subei, there is a kind of Shagra needle winding technique that is unique to the Mongolian people in northern Subei. Naren Qiqige said that the protection of intangible cultural heritage is to preserve the things of the nation, and they held intangible cultural heritage classes to teach Xia Geera needle winding skills by hand, hoping that more embroidery girls will join the inheritance and protection of Mongolian costumes in northern Subei in the future.
Walking into the intangible cultural heritage protection center of the Subei County Cultural Center, in addition to the gorgeous national costumes, yurts, saddles, Mongolian silver ornaments, etc. all show the life of the horseback people from different angles, becoming an important part of the intangible cultural heritage of the Mongolian people in Subei.
Feel the Mongolian family style in the yurt, play a deer bone game to find the happiness of childhood, listen to a long toast song, and follow the melody of the horse-head qin to gallop on the grassland.